Saturday, 22 June 2013

Nutella friands/financiers

I was very pleased to be offered a copy of Nutella: The 30
best recipes (published by Jacqui Small) to feature on my site, and even more pleased to be able to offer
all readers the chance to buy the book at a special price which is cheaper than
amazon (see below). The book is shaped
like a jar of Nutella - as if it needed making any more appealing, given the
subject matter!

The recipe which caught my eye was the financier
recipes. As I didn’t have a financier
tin (I know! I was as surprised as you!)
I decided to deploy my seldom used friand tins.
These must be much deeper than a financier as the recipe said it would
make 18, whereas I only got 6 friands!

Soft light-but-close-textured almond sponge with a generous
pocket of Nutella is never going to be a tough sell; the Nutella sank but it
did in the photo in the book too so I didn’t feel bad about it. The smell of them baking alone was enough to
draw Mr CC to the kitchen like a Bisto kid!

Given the almond content, friands are always better the day
after baking. It takes time for the
almond oils to seep out. But it is
pretty tough leaving them to find this out!

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Friands haven't taken off here like cupcakes but I love them, if only as an excuse to use my friand tin. Lovely filling to use and I always like the way the friands look as if they are about to explode!

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